What works well? Appreciative interview
By Iain Carruthers IC&CO Many organisations are obsessed with identifying and then solving problems. This can create a type of deficit psychology, where your working life feels like a series of unfortunate events in search of solutions. One remedy is to uncover what’s going well, and then seek to build on that. Appreciative interviews are one of the Liberating Structures, a set of simple meeting micro-structures that shift levels of trust and creativity. They are a great way of uncovering the enablers of success in under an hour. We experimented with this structure at the latest LS Scotland meet-up, hosted by Kirsty & Will McLean from the CHAS (There’s a festive fundraiser if you’d like to help their brilliant work.) In a nutshell: - In pairs, you’re each invited to tell a story of success related to a theme. ( In this case - a professional high in the last ...